Sacramento County Biographies
S. M. HOOVER
Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton
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SAN JOAQUIN TOWNSHIP.
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was born in 1829 at Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, and lived there
until 1850, when he moved to Illinois. After two years he started for
California, where he arrived in 1852. Mr. Hoover is one of the pioneer teamsters
of California, having continued in that business from the date of his arrival
until 1868; he made the business pay, and with the profits bought the tract of
land on which he now lives. There are twelve hundred acres of fine land in the
farm, near Elk Grove, one-half of which is fertile bottom land. Mr. Hoover and
Miss Mary Van Zandt were married in 1860; a son, fourteen years of age, is the
only child; farming and stock-raising engage Mr. Hoover's attention. One of the
illustrations of this volume represents his home.
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by
Thompson & West.